Sentences with phrase «crisis of years past»

SUVs have the world by storm, getting a second wind after the high - priced fuel crisis of years past, and ultimately forcing automakers to rethink their whole strategy.

Not exact matches

Now, he says, the experiences of the past few years suggest that central banks will need more room to maneuver in future crises.

Regardless, the fact that this metric has fallen into the lower range of readings over the past ten years — outside of the very low readings during the crisis — suggests that recent movements in volatility have come amid relatively subdued trading volumes.»

All of which flies in the face of a chorus that has been growing louder over the past three years, that Canada faces a retirement income crisis.

After the 2008 financial crisis when Goldman became a bank holding company, it could take in more customer deposits, which led to an increase in its holdings of more than $ 40 billion over the past six years.

Although Spain's borrowing costs have fallen over the past two months on the back of the ECB's new rescue plan, the Spanish 10 - year yield is still hovering just below 6 percent - a level that has been seen as unsustainable since the crisis escalated in 2011.

Despite a mixed Friday jobs report — the US economy added only 156,000 jobs against expectations of 175,000 — the labor market has come on strong over the past few years after the financial crisis.

But, combined with the economic crisis, the past few years have decimated the industry, says Stephen Atkinson, a BMO Capital Markets analyst, driving 70 % of North American newsprint supply into bankruptcy.

(This number has steadily increased over the past five years, since the turn of the financial crisis.)

Zuckerberg said during a press briefing on Wednesday that he takes responsibility for a series of crises plaguing his service over the past year.

For the past seven years, growth has serially disappointed - sometimes spectacularly, as in the depths of the global financial and euro crises; more often than not grindingly as past debts weigh on activity

«Ten years past the financial crisis and we could see a period where, instead of talking about «secular stagnation» as our mutual friend Larry Summers likes to do, we're going to be seeing growth upgrades that we haven't seen, we're going to see investment like we haven't seen and we might see inflation in a way we haven't seen,» Rogoff said.

UNICEF wants to use the cryptocurrency it gathers to help 13.5 million Syrians mired in «the most appalling humanitarian crisis of the past 20 years.»

There has not been a major bout of financial instability or a foreign financial crisis in the past four years.

Making matters worse is the government's management of the crisis; over the past year, it has persisted in upholding its debt payments, but has now hit a brick wall as its foreign reserves have dwindled to US$ 9 billion.

Partners come back from vacation in September and deals start closing a few months later; since the credit crisis deferred fund - raising for most of the past year, November 2009 will probably end up being especially busy.

Over the past five years, the economy has been through a number of shocks, including the eurozone crisis, the fiscal cliff, China's surprise currency devaluation in the summer of 2015, and the shale oil bust.

«During the past year, ICBC overcame the hard hit as a result of the financial crisis and realized healthy and stable development.

Conclusion The two key problems facing the developed economies over the past seven years since the crisis of 2008 - 09 have been the inter-related issues of balance sheet repair in the private sector and the lack of money and credit growth from the banking system.

Nimblest Banks Benefit Banks that embraced the full gamut of challenges during the crisis and still emerged in flexible enough shape to keep rolling out new products have grown their market share substantially over the past year and a half.

All three of those metros were epicenters of the foreclosure crisis but have seen foreclosure activity consistently decline over the past two to three years.

Yet, for those waiting for the China - led emerging market «blowup,» it is important to recognize that major emerging economies ranging from Russia to China to South Africa to Brazil have already experienced crises of considerable magnitude in the past couple of years alone.

We have experienced a few bumps along the way, but our congregation would not have endured some of the subsequent crises or developed a sense of common care over the past couple of years without it.

As evangelicalism in the U.S. has been working its way through something of an identity crisis over the past few years, and as many young evangelicals like myself have reconnected with the spiritual disciplines, this seems to be a recurring point of contention, and therefore one that should be addressed.

The core of the crisis lay in the field of mortgages — more precisely, in the foreclosures of just over 5 percent of all home mortgages over the past year or so.

While it was not news then that pervasive change was afoot, it has taken the traumas of the past ten years — an immoral and lost war, racial and sexual conflict, the imminence of economic and ecologic collapse — to persuade us of just how deep that crisis is.

Over half of all dairy farmers have increased their borrowings or deferred debt repayments over the past year to cope with this crisis.

For the umpteenth year running, the term «identity crisis» has been wheeled out yet again as fans either demand a racing utopia of the future, or V8 Valhalla of the past.

Stop living in the past, get over your grudge and recognise that AFC fans have much to be pleased about including the fact that unlike years gone by we are one win from the top of the PL, despite a terrible injury crisis that we are only now starting to come out of.

The current crisis is worsening the economic situation and seriously endangers the ambitious — and often popular - social programmes launched by the president in the past ten years such as the exemption of health - care user fees from pregnant mothers and children below five, free schools, a reform of primary school, and a new health insurance scheme.

The global financial crisis of the past year has underlined the importance of our defining philosophy: while markets are powerful drivers of growth and innovation, there is a vital role for the state in making sure they work fairly and in the public interest.

Cuomo and de Blasio have clashed on a host of issues over the past year, including the mayor's handling of the homeless crisis.

Using the protracted power crisis that has plagued the country for the past three years to buttress his point, the former flagbearer - aspirant of the Convention People's Party (CPP) said the President has failed to show the needed sense of urgency toward solving the problem.

Indeed, the odious and foul smell of crisis, which had dogged the last NFF board headed by Aminu Maigari and culminated in the non-qualification of the Super Eagles for the 2015 African Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea, seemed a thing of the past in Pinnick's first year at the Glass House.

The past fifty years of Space travel and research has changed communications, technology and our understanding of life and the Universe, can we look to space to answer humanitarian crises on Earth?

Mr Brown will also claim that the financial and political crises of the past two years have made him a better leader.

The department has gone from crisis to crisis over the past three years, after the deaths of four children whose caretakers were being investigated by CPS.

«Over the past couple of years, the legislature has taken steps to combat this crisis, but more clearly is needed.

Syriza, on the other hand, has its roots in more traditional radical left politics, but in the past four years it has ditched doctrinal debates about the evils of capitalism and embraced Keynesian solutions to deal with Greece's debt and social crisis.

According to President Akufo - Addo, the resolution of the crisis and the non-enskinment of a Yaa - Naa for the past 15 years is a matter of great national concern.

Previously Cameron's chief whip, he had been in the transport department since 2012 and managed to keep himself relatively out of the limelight, considering some of the controversies over the past four years, including the west coast mainline franchise, HS2, Heathrow expansion and now the crisis with Southern trains.

For the past three years, once - dry Erie County budget hearings have transformed into somber and tear - laden events, a testament to the duration and toll of a public health crisis locally and nationally.

Over the past year, a string of banking institutions have found themselves in such a «liquidity crisis»: unable to convince the market they can honour their promises to pay back money they owe.

While both trade and financial shocks have worsened over the past year, the financial shocks will likely be much milder than during the major crises of the late 20th century, Ocampo said.

Likewise, a key trend in the coming 25 years will be the realization that the destruction of the remains of the past has reached crisis proportions and that archaeologists will have to significantly increase their efforts to persuade governments and people to conserve the world's archaeological heritage.

Lots has happened this past year and everyday I'm learning more about life + myself... safe to say this has been the year of breakdowns, quarter - of - a-life «pre» crisis, big changes + plenty of life lessons but nonetheless, it's been one hell of a ride!

by Angelo Muredda The intersection of the financial crisis and the North Dakota oil boom has turned Williston, ND into an unlikely mecca in the past few years.

To try to find a way for the world to do better, I have been working over the past year with Gordon Brown, the UN Special Envoy for Education, and Anthony Lake, the head of UNICEF, under the auspices of the government of Norway, to build a mechanism that will generate and direct the necessary resources to create a world where no child will have her or his education interrupted because of an emergency or crisis.

The scope of the crisis is considerable: Results from the National Assessment for Educational Progress — a test that's also known as the Nation's Report Card — show almost no change in the achievement gap between white and black students over the past 50 years.

Policymakers feared an impending crisis because, if past trends held, about half of these teachers would leave in their first five years.